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Speaking of back and forth, we are greatly valued by the perspective of Arthur Levitt, the former chairman of the SEC,

but I would suggest that Chairman Levitt brings not a bias but his view.

Rob Tricinelli does not.

He is cutthroat in being fair and balanced in looking at SEC changes.

Rob Tricinelli, let me cut to the chase.

For Global Wall Street, is it thumb up or thumb down

on new SEC legislation?

Well, you kind of right to the case, yeah, I would say, I mean, probably thumbed down because none of it's going to become law I mean really there's a bunch of bills just came out of the house committee that handles

that some of it is Republican messaging

some of it is small tweaks to the to the financial laws that they've been pushing that kind of thing

for a while but you know you did it's hard to say if any of it's going anywhere.

You have been doing this for a long time. Is the lobbying effort of Wall Street different now

than it was three or four years ago, or particularly 2006? Is there a different ballet in your Washington? You're with

Bloomberg B&A so you see this all the time. Have the canopy's changed at the

St. Regis Hotel? You do see a little bit of an effort just because even the term

Wall Street is something that lawmakers kind of run away from with this political climate and it seems even on kind of both

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